Survivors are struggling to recover from the earthquake and tsunami that struck just over two weeks ago. ...
10:51 AM, Mar 27, 2011
All measures are being used to help in resuce efforts, including the use of trained dogs. ...
07:58 PM, Mar 22, 2011
Tokyo: It seemed too good to be true. A young man pulled alive from the rubble on Saturday eight days after Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami. Hours after the man made international headlines on Saturday, a glimmer of hope in Japan's worst tragedy since World War Two, Japanese media offered a mea culpa, withdrew the story and dashed hopes of a "tsunami miracle". The man, in fact, had been in...
12:21 PM, Mar 19, 2011
In Yamagata, quake survivors lined up for hours for food and fuel. ...
09:03 PM, Mar 16, 2011
91 countries and 6 international organizations have offered of assistance to Japan so far. ...
08:35 AM, Mar 16, 2011
Japan could be facing a nuclear disaster even as the death toll rises. ...
10:43 PM, Mar 15, 2011
CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta brings us the extraordinary story of a survivor. ...
09:53 PM, Mar 15, 2011
Japan was hit by the biggest earthquake in over 100 years on Friday. Measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale, the quake triggered a tsunami that devastated the North East coast leaving many dead. Robert Michael Poole, who survived Japan's killer tsunami, recounts his ordeal. ...
08:38 PM, Mar 11, 2011
Barasat, West Bengal: Now the only survivor of the Chittagong armoury raid, Binod Behari Choudhury vividly remembers the day - April 22, 1930 - when he received bullet injuries fighting the British forces in the Jalalabad hills, an incident that inspired the Bollywood film "Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey". Choudhury, 101, who lives in Bangladesh, comes to India frequently to visit his son. "When I received a critical bullet injury...
02:33 PM, Jan 19, 2011
Washington: A higher walking speed could be the key to older adults surviving for longer, a study suggests. Stephanie Studenski of the University of Pittsburgh in the US and her colleagues conducted a study to co-relate gait speed with survival in older adults. The study analysed nine studies between 1986 and 2000 using individual data from 34,485 community-dwelling adults aged 65 years or above, reports the Journal of the American...
07:45 PM, Jan 05, 2011
Out of the 67 people killed in the building collapse in East Delhi's Laxmi Nagar, 30 people were cremated on Wednesday. Delhi government has ordered a judicial probe into the accident. For the survivors of the tragedy whose world collapsed on Monday evening, things are turning form bad to worse. They have been left with only their blood soaked clothes that they have been wearing for the last two days. ...
10:37 PM, Nov 17, 2010
Mumbai: Model cum Bollywood actress Lisa Ray is on a global mission these days. After having battled cancer through stem cell transplantation, the actress has become the global advisor for the same. Fourteen months of battling multiple Myeloma has not killed her indomitable spirit. She's cured and jokingly refers to herself as a "cancer graduate". She sports the cancer haircut and the bangle, which she is wearing, says a lot...
09:52 AM, Oct 24, 2010
The people of Leh are still waiting to receive compensation promised by the Government. ...
10:49 AM, Sep 13, 2010
The Bhopal gas tragedy is the world's worst industrial disaster and remains a blot in Independent India's history. Even after two decades, the pain and suffering of the victims of the tragedy are still alive. The scars run deep, and the truth seems to be buried by politics. Corporate liability, when it comes to MNCs, still remains elusive in the industry even as the government passes the buck on who allowed Warren Anderson go scot-free. Has India learnt its lessons from the Bhopal gas tragedy?
02:49 PM, Jun 16, 2010
It's been more than 25 years since the world's worst industrial disaster struck the industrial town of Bhopal. A lower court has convicted all the eight accused in the gas leak that left 15,000 people dead and innumerable crippled for life. 25 years on, has justice finally been delivered? Or is the verdict too little, too late?
12:04 PM, Jun 07, 2010
The airline says only 116 bodies out of the 166 people on board had been recovered so far. ...
05:28 PM, May 22, 2010
The nine-year-old, Ruben Van Assouw flew back home to the Netherlands on Saturday. ...
08:21 AM, May 16, 2010
They have taken the massive cleanup after the quake into their own hands. ...
09:01 AM, Feb 08, 2010
Rescue teams pulled her out of the rubble from the quake-hit Haiti. ...
01:38 PM, Jan 24, 2010
Shop clerk pulled out of quake rubble in Port-au-Prince after 11 days. ...
10:11 AM, Jan 24, 2010
